Vegetables Aren't What You Think

It’s time for another Theme Thursday. This week’s theme is Vegetables.


This time around I’m just going to talk about vegetables straight up. No elaborate comedy idea. Sure, I could talk about how brussel sprouts are a delicious part of a vegan breakfast! I could go on and on about other wacky uses for vegetables. But not this time. Vegetables are wacky enough on their own.

First of all, people can’t even decide on whether a bunch of them are a vegetable or a fruit. Take the tomato for example. Biologically it is a fruit but a law was accidentally passed to define it as vegetable. What of the pumpkin? Technically it is a fruit too. But when speaking in terms of cuisine it can be either. Humans, we have to categorize and then we have to have exceptions.

But there are some weird ass vegetables out there. Take this strange Italian cauliflower…

This looks like the vegetable equivalent of eating seashells! Look long enough and you can actually visualize some strange Dr. Suess world living down in there! Well…I can!

I have a hard enough time liking some root down in the ground without imagining it as something else! But imagining vegetables as something else is a long standing tradition that is only getting bigger and bigger.

Take pumpkins. Pumpkins are the quintessential carved vegetable on the planet. They’ve come along way from your basic kid carvings too!

It doesn’t stop with pumpkins though. Thanks mostly in part to there being 6 billion people on the planet of which most are bored and/or out of work we now have any vegetable becoming a candidate for art.

If you think about it though, we’ve been imagining vegetables to be other things for quite some time and it hasn’t required any carving skill…just a little bit of perverted imagination!